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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

April 10, 1994Montgomery County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1994, 3:25 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1994, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 452 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 11:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 12:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 12:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-101945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE  TN
149 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994

AT 130 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERRED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WERE OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE NEAR FRANKLIN AND NEAR FAYETTEVILLE.

SCATTERED HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WERE ALSO OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND
THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THE HEAVY RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
WAVERLY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE TO NEAR CROSSVILLE ON THE CUMBERLAND
PLATEAU.

MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
TODAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 2:44 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-102045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE  TN
245 PM CDT SUN APR 10 1994

AT 230 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERRED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WERE OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE JUST NORTH OF LEBANON...AND BETWEEN
FAYETTEVILLE AND LAWRENCEBURG. ALSO...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR MC MINNVILLE ON
THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.

OTHERWISE...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...WERE OVER WEST KENTUCKY...SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...WEST
TENNESSEE...MIDDLE TENNESSEE...AND THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
TODAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wilson	2 hr
Apr 10, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	61 min
Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Maury	60 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.